Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3

Indeed, she was not a woman, but a young girl, and her bearing was so gently noble, her look so modestly high, that the champion dared scarcely look at her, although he could not by any means have looked away.

Who acts: woman, bearing, champion, any · What happens: not be, be, dare, look, not mean, look away · To what, where: woman

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, bearing, champion, any), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 woman	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 woman	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 girl	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 girl	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woman	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 noble	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 noble	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bearing	nmod:poss
16	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noble	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 noble	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 noble	advmod
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	20 noble	advmod
20	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 look	nmod:poss
23	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noble	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 high	advmod
25	modestly	modestly	ADV	_	26 high	advmod
26	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 look	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 look	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 dared	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 champion	det
30	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dared	nsubj
31	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 look	advcl
32	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	33 look	advmod
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 noble	parataxis
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 looked	punct
37	although	although	SCONJ	_	39 could	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 could	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 looked	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 means	advmod
41	by	by	SCONJ	_	43 means	mark
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 means	nsubj
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 could	acl:relcl
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 looked	aux
45	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 look	advcl
46	away	away	ADV	_	45 looked	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	woman	a woman but a young girl	indeed property	tree rules
2	is	past	woman's bearing		gently, noble property	tree rules
3	dare	past	the champion			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	infinitive			at woman; scarcely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
5	not mean	present	any			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	look away	could · perfect			away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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